You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.